Anything from meat and chicken to cigarettes and alcohol, the “Vleisvrou” can get it for cheaper — or at least that is what numerous Port Elizabeth residents were led to believe before allegedly being scammed by a con woman at the weekend.

The woman, whose name is known to The Herald, is referred to by residents as the Vleisvrou [meat lady] due her self-proclaimed ability to get most products for less than you would pay at a shop...